The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when
a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been
reached.
libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event
driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch()
and can then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the
event loop.
Currently, libevent supports kqueue(2), select(2), poll(2), and epoll(4).
The internal event mechanism is completely independent of the exposed event
API, and a simple update of libevent can provide new functionality without
having to redesign the applications. As a result, Libevent allows for
portable application development and provides the most scalable event
notification mechanism available on an operating system.
WWW: http://libevent.org/

Reason: libevent1 has been replaced by libevent2 via the compatibility layer.
All applications that used libevent1 must be rebuilt.
Please remove libevent1 before upgrading, by running:
pkg delete -f libevent

Port Moves

port moved to devel/libevent2 on 2014-07-27REASON: libevent2 replaced libevent

Number of commits found: 65

Commit History - (may be incomplete: see SVNWeb link above for full details)

Only use libevent2
Remove libevent as libevent2 is providing a good compatibility interface as well
as providing better performances.
Remove custom patches from libevent2 and install libevent2 the regular way
Mark ports abusing private fields of the libevent1 API as broken
Import a patch from fedora to have honeyd working with libevent2
Remove most of the patches necessary to find the custom installation we used to
have for libevent2
With hat: portmgr

- Set --mandir and --infodir in CONFIGURE_ARGS if the configure script
supports them. This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in
do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS
which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS.
- Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable
Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too.
- Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man
- Define INFO_PATH where necessary
- Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to
PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and
subdirectory detection.
PR: ports/111470
Approved by: portmgr
Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs)
Tested by: pointyhat exp run

devel/libevent is marked as BROKEN on >= 7.0 but actually builds
devel/libevent is marked as BROKEN on FreeBSD >= 700014,
but it builds on FreeBSD/amd64 with kern.osreldate: 700015
(source synced at 04/03/2006) and seem to be working ok as
dependency of security/tor or security/tor-devel.
PR: ports/95337
Submitted by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>

Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order. The code present
in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the
old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in
exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself.
Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME
team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it.
Preliminary documentation can be found at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt
which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the
Porters Handbook.
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